Quotes About Authority

Mary? said an officer who was carrying a large potted plant in the manner of someone who thinks it is well outside his job description.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.

The leader was identified by his dental records—why he had them on him, no one was quite sure.

No one's going to be killing any Dragons,' said the Princess. 'It is my order.' 'I'm a knight,' he said simply, 'killing Dragons is what I do.' 'And burning idiots like you to powdered charcoal,' said Colin, 'is what we do.

We have it on good authority that they might disguise it as a double entendre in a bedroom farce and deliver it up the rear entrance at Comedy.

Mi padre decía que Cataluña siempre ha estado en manos de un puñado de familias. Ellos mandaban antes del franquismo, mandaron durante el franquismo, mandan después del franquismo y mandarán cuando tú y yo estemos muertos y enterrados...

Lo único que sé es que los políticos no son ni de derechas ni de izquierdas: son sólo políticos. Lo único que les interesa es el poder.

vine aquí sin el permiso de los médicos. Pinches médicos, esa gente quiere que vivamos más de lo que nos corresponde...

People are silently begging to be led.

Take your desires for reality! can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

The old form of voluntary servitude was that of free men using that freedom paradoxically to turn themselves into serfs. The new voluntary servitude is that of men obeying the demand that they be free.

Tukenmeye baslayan bir politika dunyasiyla birlikte Cumhurbaskanlari, ilkel toplumlarda bir iktidar kuklasindan baska bir sey olmayan kabile seflerine benzemektedirler.

Action or exaction? Voting, petitions, solidarity, information, human rights: all these things are gently extorted from you in the form of personal or promotional blackmail.

The corruption of power is to inscribe into the real everything which is found in dreams….

science never sacrifices itself, it is always murderous)

Avoid having power over anyone, unless it be the power of life and death.

Might one suggest to the people that they storm the opera house and tear it down on the symbolic date of 14 July? Might one suggest that they parade the bloody heads of our modern cultural governors on the end of pikestaffs? But we no longer make history. We have become reconciled with it and protect it like an endangered masterpiece. Times have changed.

One who lets others believe is always superior to one who believes, or makes others believe.

Si je préfère les chats aux chiens, c'est parce qu'il n'y a pas de chat policier

Raça por mim tão amada, Desta feita morrerás!» Júpiter daí a nada Fez-se menos ferrabrás.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed.

Can s?k?c? bir budalal??? betimlemem gerekseydi, çocuklar?na din dersi veren bir bilgiçi betimlerdim. Bir çocuÄŸu deli yapmak isteseydim, onu öÄŸrendiÄŸi din bilgisini ezbere yineleyip anlat?rken, söylediklerini aç?klamak zorunda b?rak?rd?m.

A people who never misused the powers of government would never misuse independence, and a people which always governed itself well would not need to be governed.